It has long been the custom: the whips were held in pieces, but Siringaria was equipped for warm grain cattle. Previously, they said, everyone lived together. And then came the Serpent, the Thundering Serpent, the Great Iron Serpent. He swallowed up the previous world, and carried it away in his belly, far away. Then he vomited out of himself onto the new soil, and in the womb everything was so mixed up and twisted that there became two of one breed: knuts and lyudva. Due to their weak strength, people were given a ration of bread, and from that they received their nickname. Whips were placed to look after them, to herd them and protect them. That’s how it was.